Philadelphia’s 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee files criminal charges against French cities supporting black death-row prisoner
by Hans Bennett
Is it a crime to publicly honor black death-row prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal (convicted of killing white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in a 1982 trial that Amnesty International has declared a “violation of minimum international standards that govern fair trial procedures and the use of the death penalty”)? Future Philadelphia mayoral candidate Peter J. Wirs thinks so. [More]